Master of Arts
in Liberal Studies
Graduate Seminars
Titles of Recent Degree Papers
American Frontiers: Historical and Literary Representations of Gauchos and Cowboys
Character, Content, and Context: An Account of Natural Kind Terms and Proper Names
Documenting Louisiana: Rural and Industrial Photographs of Elemore Morgan 1942-1952
Elevators for Freight and Disabled Only: Making the Case for a Strong Disability Culture in Defining the Disability Experience
Engaging Music: The Ernste Gesänge of Hanns Eisler and How One Cycle Affects Another
Faculty Salary Policies at Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Has Market-Driven Differential Pay Replaced the Equity Principle?
Faust in Film and the Persistence of the Romantic Impulse
Feminism and the Daughters of the American Revolution: 1890-1920
Form of One’s Own: A Study of Playwright Maria Irene Fornes Accompanied by an Original Play
Galileo: His 17th-Century Trials and 20th-Century Rehabilitation
Garcilaso de la Vega’s Incas as Civilizers of the Andes and Quasi-Christians: Defending the Incas through Reason and Natural Law
Image and Controversy: Brother Elias and the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi
Interpreting Women’s “Privileges” after the Fourteenth Amendment: Ideas, Litigation, and Politics in the “New Departure,” 1868–75
Looking for Homosexuality as “Disease” in Thomas Mann
“Lucifer Joy”: Complexities of Tone in Gregory Corso’s Poetry
Observations of Resilience and Defeat in Arthur Runquist’s Paintings of Labor and the Land
Orphan of the Camus Storm: The Poetics of Bob Kaufman
Paracelsus and the Decline of Galenism
Pessimism and Enlightenment in the Philosophy of Schopenhauer
Reenvisioning the Marketplace: A Radical Redesign of the Modern Supermarket
Ritual Dance: Primary Social Text
The Black and Blue Collar Blues: Examining Notions of Labor in Langston Hughes’ Poem Good Morning Revolution
The Decline of Wild Salmon and the Industrialization of Aquaculture: How the Trend toward the Adoption of Transgenics in Aquaculture Threatens Wild Salmon
The History of the Portland Story: Looking for Native Americans in the Popular Historiography of Portland, Oregon
The Winners and Losers of French Agricultural Subsidies
The Work of Art in the Age of Nuclear Enchantment
“These Two Emerge Together But Have Different Names”: Chuang-tzu Meets Nagarjuna in the Excluded Middle
Ursa Minor: An Exploration of the Present Moment, the Personal Essay, and Virginia Woolf
"You're so Known to Me.": Construction of Lesbian Identity in Two Novels by Gale Wilhelm
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